BURGHAL INDEPENDENCE 167
XIV. THE BANNER OF ST. PAUL 187
XV. GOD'S PENNY 195
XVI. THE MERCHANT AND HIS MARK 200
RURAL
XVII. RUS IN URBE 204
XVIII. COUNTRY PROPER 216
DOMESTIC
XIX. RETINUES 238
INDEX 249
THE CUSTOMS OF OLD ENGLAND
ECCLESIASTICAL
CHAPTER I
LEAGUES OF PRAYER
A work purporting to deal with old English customs on the broad
representative lines of the present volume naturally sets out with a
choice of those pertaining to the most ancient and venerable institution
of the land--the Church; and, almost as naturally it culls its first
flower from a life with which our ancestors were in intimate touch, and
which was known to them, in a special and excellent sense, as religious.
The custom to which has been assigned the post of honour is of
remarkable and various interest. It takes us back to a remote past, when
the English, actuated by new-born fervour, sent the torch of faith to
their German kinsmen, still plunged in the gloom of traditional
paganism; and it was fated to end when the example of those same German
kinsmen stimulated our countrymen to throw off a yoke which had long
been irksome, and was then in sharp conflict with their patriotic
ideals.
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